Las Vegas, NV
March 13, 2013
Citation for
James Zappen
Elevated to ATTW Fellow, March 2012
Tracing Networks of Discourse
Jason Swarts, North Carolina State University
Our reliance on mobile, networking technologies means that we can no longer expect writing and discourse to be traditionally situated in stable settings of use among groups of people with reliably understandable motives. Increasingly, we use information in polycontextual settings, distributed across people, spaces, times, and activities, where coherent and focused use is an accomplishment of coordinated effort.
Analyzing Data from Complex Institutional Contexts
Ellen Barton, Wayne State University
Announcing…
The call for proposals for the 2011 ATTW conference is attached belowbelow (pdf).
For additional information, contact the conference chair, Jason Swarts at North Carolina State University (Jason_Swarts@ncsu.edu). New teachers of technical and professional communication are particularly invited to attend the conference, as are graduate students and CCCC attendees with interests in technical and professional communication.
Updated information abour registering for the conference has been posted on the front page of the site.
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing was formed in 1973 to encourage dialogue among teachers of technical communication and to develop technical communication as an academic discipline. ATTW today has approximately 1,000 members and includes both graduate and undergraduate students of technical communication as well as professional technical communicators in business and industry.
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